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The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and the Cascade Farmer Rancher City Volunteer Fire Department invites the community to join them in honoring and remembering the sacrifice of Cascade's own fallen hero, Kenneth M. Lemanski, Jr. Ken died of complications from COVID, which he contracted while answering a call in 2021. Kenneth Lemanski, Jr. was born at Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda, Michigan, to Cynthia and Kenneth Lemanski Sr. on March 13, 1984. At just a few weeks old, Ken moved...
Chances are that a family member or a friend of a friend are currently battling an addiction that no one knew was closer than we could imagine. Yes, even here in rural Cascade, Montana, we are not immune to a vastly growing poison that is taking the lives of our loved ones, and even the ones that prescribe the very pills that take away our physical pain. Cascade County Substance Abuse Prevention Alliance, along with The Sober Life, hosted a free community event held at Wedsworth Hall that...
A friend put in a request for a column addressing a sensitive subject. Over the years numerous folks have expressed similar emotions and there’s always guilt in their voices when they’ve told me about it. When a loved one dies, the one left behind feels grief but, frequently, also relief. Our relief produces guilt. “If I truly loved him or her, how can I feel relief that they’re gone?” Grief is a complex issue. It is neither simple nor is there a standard that applies to everyone. People ma...
Fort Worth, TX, April 18, 2023 — Christian author Gracie Lynne explores themes of rejection, self-doubt and, ultimately, forgiveness, in her powerful, relatable story of a young woman going through a difficult divorce and parenting three young children in her award-winning book, The Shattered Vase. In it, the author shares the story of a soon-to-be single mom, Susie, whose idyllic life is shattered when her husband leaves her for another woman. With three children, a small home in the country and no job, Susie is pushed to the brink of s...
Montana Child Care Business Connect (MCCBC), a program of Zero to Five Montana, has selected communities from a pool of applicants to move forward with the Community Capacity Building Cohort. The goal of this program is to engage communities in identifying solutions to increase the supply of high quality affordable licensed/ registered child care. This will be done through mobilizing community members and empowering the creation of community-based solutions (by preserving existing child care businesses and adding new child care slots)....
BADGER TRACK ROUND UP The Badgers High School track team is off to a great start this season with a large number of athletes and lots of determination. There is anoumber of returning state qualifiers as well as a handful of younger athletes who are going to be vital to the future success of this team. So far, with three meets completed the Badger boys have placed top 3 in every meet, including the highly competitive Cal Wearley Invitiation in Havre. Defending triple jump state champion junior...
Gov. Greg Gianforte signed the bill that implements the state's 2024-2025 employee pay plan this week, authorizing raises and bonuses for the state workforce over the next two years. The pay plan calls for either $1.50-an-hour or 4% raises, whichever is greater, for state and Montana University System employees this year and next, effective July 1 of each year. Employees will also receive a one-time bonus, $1,040 for full-time workers and lesser amounts for part-time workers. The plan also...
The Montana House followed the lead of the state Senate Thursday to endorse a statewide ban on the social media platform TikTok. Senate Bill 419, sponsored by Rep. Shelly Vance, R-Belgrade, would bar the platform's China-based parent company, ByteDance, from allowing "the operation of tiktok by the company or users" inside Montana's "territorial jurisdiction" as long as the platform is owned by a company based in China or another country designated a "foreign adversary" by the federal...
For many Spring means gentle rains, the flush of tulips and daffodils, sharp April breezes, small green buds peeping out from the ends of lilacs and trees and more warm sunshine; especially after the long gray and chill winter. Spring is a hopeful season. Hope that the rains come for better crops, hope for warmer temps, time for vacations, long summer nights and better roads! There are those who have waited for this time of year since the last fallen leaf. They have sat and eagerly counted the days, warmed up the stiff arms, reaffirmed their...
WOLF CREEK, Mont. – The Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) and Riverside Contracting will begin work on the I 15 Wolf Creek North and South project the week of April 17. This project will rehabilitate approximately 7 miles of Interstate 15 (I 15) near Wolf Creek. The project area begins approximately 5 miles south of Wolf Creek and extends north to the Augusta Interchange (Exit 228). Construction will begin on the southbound side of the interstate this spring. Both north and southbound traffic will travel on the northbound side of t...
Gearheads and stock car enthusiasts gathered last Saturday April 15th to partake in the Stock Car and Classics Auto Show. Hot rod classics and the crowd favorite, stock cars, lined up outside The Pit Stop Tavern for all to enjoy after the long winter hibernation. Shined up and ready to be showed off, the owners displayed their hard work and creativity through the custom cars. There was plenty of food and beverages to go around, while silent auctions were had to keep everyone bidding and...
HELENA – Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is looking for approval from the Fish and Wildlife Commission to move forward with a rule making process on administrative rules that address state management of grizzly bears. The request comes as the Montana Legislature considers Senate Bill 295. The bill would further clarify how Montana will manage grizzly bears once they are removed from the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Specifically, SB 295 speaks to issues of human safety, conflict with l...
Two proposals with competing visions for the tens of millions in taxes that Montana collects annually on the sale of recreational marijuana are still making their way through the Legislature as lawmakers work to set a two-year state budget. One measure, House Bill 669, would funnel most of the state’s adult-use marijuana tax collections — which are forecast to top $50 million per year — to the General Fund, allowing lawmakers to distribute that money as they see fit on a session-by-session basis, including this one. The other, Senate Bill 442,...
When budget cuts led Western Montana Mental Health Center to start curtailing its services five years ago, rural communities primarily felt the effect. But as the decline of one of the state’s largest mental health providers has continued, it’s left a vacuum in behavioral health care. It started in places like Livingston, a town of 8,300 where, in 2018, Western closed an outpatient treatment clinic and told more than 100 patients to travel 30 miles over a mountain pass to Bozeman for stabilizing mental health care. This spring, Western clo...
A Helena judge on Monday denied a motion filed earlier today by Montana abortion providers seeking to block House Bill 721, a bill that would prohibit the most common procedure for terminating pregnancies after the first trimester. The bill, which cleared its last vote in the Legislature April 7, has not yet been signed into law by Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte. But in court filings, attorneys for Planned Parenthood of Montana argued that the bill's immediate effective date would cause...
Officials with the Washington-based hospitality company that purchased the historic Izaak Walton Inn near Glacier National Park in December say their company is growing rapidly and they see big opportunities in Montana in the years ahead. In fact, just weeks after LOGE Camps sealed the deal on the Izaak Walton in Essex, it purchased a second Montana property, the old Mountain Valley Inn near downtown Missoula, which it plans to renovate and reopen this fall. LOGE (pronounced “Lodge” and standing...
HELENA – Hunters in Montana, along with Fish, Wildlife & Parks, are concerned about declining mule deer populations in much of the state. In response to this concern, FWP is embarking on research efforts to look into the declines and engage hunters about their attitudes on mule deer management and hunting. Mule deer numbers have typically been tracked over large areas using aerial surveys and declines can be attributed to several different things including winterkill, short-term habitat c...
HELENA – Applications for the West-central Lion Ecoregional Population Objective Committee (WC LEPOC) will be accepted through midnight on April 30. The committee will advise the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission on management of the west-central mountain lion ecoregional population. The committee will recommend population trend, size and sex-age composition at the end of the next five years to address lion population sustainability at a target level that maximizes public satisfaction r...
